{"id":23000,"date":"2018-08-12T16:30:29","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T20:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=23000"},"modified":"2018-08-08T11:19:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T15:19:41","slug":"new-urologist-at-pch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/new-urologist-at-pch\/","title":{"rendered":"New Urologist at PCH"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_23001\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23001\" style=\"width: 316px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23001\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PCH-Murtagh.png?resize=316%2C475&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"316\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PCH-Murtagh.png?w=316&amp;ssl=1 316w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PCH-Murtagh.png?resize=260%2C391&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PCH-Murtagh.png?resize=160%2C241&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23001\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Daniel Murtagh, Jr.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Paulding County Hospital (PCH) is pleased to announce that Dr. Daniel Murtagh Jr. will be providing urology care at PCH.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>He earned his Doctorate of Medicine at The University of Toledo College of Medicine.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>He completed a general surgery internship at the University of Toledo Medical Center (former Medical College of Ohio) where he recently completed a Urology Residency.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>He is a member of the American Urological Association and recently sat for the American Board of Urology examination.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Murtagh will be conducting a clinic every Tuesday where he will be performing testing and surgery as needed.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>He will focus his practice on issues related to the urinary system including kidney stones, urinary retention, urinary incontinence, female pelvic floor issues, prostate conditions, etc.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Many urology conditions can be treated through medications while some such as pelvic floor issues can be treated by physical medicine.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Some bladder conditions may benefit from implanting an electronic device called a bladder stimulator that is like a pacemaker for the bladder.<\/p>\n<p>Other conditions may require surgical intervention.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Due to advances in techniques and equipment many of those procedures can be performed as Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Using endoscopes and lasers the surgeon is able to operate through a natural opening resulting in less discomfort and blood loss.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Dr. Murtagh is also trained in robotic surgery that can be performed at another facility.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Murtagh also has physicians to provide services in his absence.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Drs. Buck, Khan, and Mostafa are urologists associated with Dr. Murtagh through their group practice the ROMIUS Institute of Northwest Ohio.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Persons wishing to make an appointment at the urology clinic may call 419.399.1136.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paulding County Hospital (PCH) is pleased to announce that Dr. Daniel Murtagh Jr. will be providing urology care at PCH.\u00a0He<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2230,6,499],"tags":[417,570,10924,59,10925],"class_list":["post-23000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-community","category-community","category-health","tag-county","tag-hospital","tag-murtagh","tag-paulding","tag-urologist"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PCH-Murtagh.png?fit=316%2C475&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-5YY","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 19:48:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}